Quotes About Surrender

It was what she imagined doing heroin would be like: terrible for you but impossible to resist.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice: everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into — heart, mind, and soul.

God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.

Confidence in God's character enables us to throw ourselves with complete abandon into His care.

We grow up when we see our life and our role from God's perspective; when we thank God for the role He has assigned us and begin to see our cup as a gift instead of a cross; when each morning we ask, "God, how can I glorify You today in my given role?

It's our "helping God out" that leads to an anxious heart. When we take over and try to control what happens, we take our focus off the One who is in control and put our eyes on our circumstances.

It's one thing to say so in a prayer, but it's a whole other thing to match those prayers in obedience.

Sometimes it takes a loss before we can understand what it means to be found.

God may not give us what we want, but in his loving-kindness, he will give us everything we need.

Here's what God wants. He wants you to look up. He wants you to trust him.

If you are caught up in situations beyond your control, the solution is not figuring out how God can save you; it's trusting that he will.

We need to come to God humbly. We are not his master he is our master.

We were created to be continually dependent on God, yet we often strive for our independence.

Proverbs 3:5 says that if we trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding, and in all our ways ac–Shepherd_ knowledge him, he will direct our paths.

Écrire, disait [Georges Perros], c'est renoncer au monde en implorant le monde de ne pas renoncer à nous. (p. 37)

Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It's out of my control

Forfeit the game Before somebody else Takes you out of the frame And puts your name to shame Cover up your face You can't run the race The pace is too fast You just won't last

I did not see that there was much more I could do for Jeff. He was now totally in the hands of other people. They would decide what he wore, what he ate, where he slept, what medication, if, any, he received. My fatherly duties had been reduced to the provision of a few small services, none of them basic. As a father, my role had almost disappeared.

Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.

I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders curving around her as if he could draw her into himself. Murmuring her name, he brought her hand to his face and nuzzled ardently into her palm, his lips brushing the warm circlet of her gold wedding band. "My love is upon you," he whispered…and she knew then that she had won.